This can still happen in works that take place in a completely different universe as ours when there's an overarching timeline but it's very difficult to pinpoint where in that timeline the events currently being described take place in.

Most of the time, The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking seems to be set around the 1940s (when the first books were written). However, the characters are shocked when a local man "invents" a flying machine and Pippi's sailing adventures with her father seem to be out of the 1600s.

10,000 BC appears to be set in the prehistoric times, with the main character encountering both a wooly mammoth and a saber tooth tiger. However he ends up somewhere that appears to be ancient Egypt or at least Mesopotamia (an emperor is having a large pyramid built).

Robert E. Hopward's Conan the Barbarian stories take place sometime between 20,000 B.C. and 9,500 B.C. Or as his short story "The Phoenix on the Sword" puts it, "Between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas."

Several time periods you visit in Final Fantasy XIII-2 are labeled simply "??? AF" in the Historia Crux, meaning these episodes take place After the Fall but how many years after is unclear.

Nigel from The Lost Crown never does get a straight answer when he asks what year is it in Saxton, a region filled with anachronisms due to its numerous hauntings.

Live A Live avoids specifying dates at which chapters occur (although the timeframes are much clearer). Logs in Science Fiction chapter even go so far as to hide dates with Xs (although the "copyright" text in Captain Square minigame makes it clear it takes place no earlier than 22nd century).

You are saying that you think this draft is ready to be published. That means the description is not ambiguous,
it doesn't duplicate an existing trope, there are at least three examples, and the title makes sense.

Is that what you meant to do?

You are saying this draft has a ready-to-publish hat it does not deserve and you are taking it back.

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